We have quite a diverse mix of people on TFC, people from all over the world supporting Spurs. And I got to wondering, WHY? Something attracted us all to this wonderful club, something made us all decide "hey I'm going to become a Spurs fan" If we look back over the last 20 years or so, for many newer fans of the club it certainly isn't success, so what made you choose Spurs over say the Chavs or the Scum, who in the 90s and 2000s were much more succesful than us (Bastards) or even other mid table teams from that era, like Villa or Everton.
For me it all stems back to the 1991 FA cup final, I had never been that interested in Football, but loved Italia 90, and that was because of one man: Paul Gascoigne, Gazza was massive, he was everywhere, on crisp adverts, in the papers he was immense (to coin an AVB phrase.) And he played for the team my dad liked. One day that team was on the telly, I didn't know why, I was only a kid, we were playing a team in red, and they were from Nottingham, now at the time my auntie was living in Nottingham, I was obsessed with Robin Hood, and logically you would have thought that would make me lean towards Forest on that fateful day. My Auntie was down visiting, and we were all watching this match together. Now I knew my dad wanted me to support the team in white, but my auntie was trying to get me to support the team in red. Then I saw him, Gazza came out with the Spurs team and I said. "I'm going to support Spurs"
It didn't matter to me that he went off after ten minutes, it didn't matter that Forest scored first, I had made my mind up. And to me it seems like it was a pretty good choice.
Gazza went to Lazio, legends came and left...Klinsmann, Sheringham, Ginola, but I still stayed Spurs!
COYS
For me it all stems back to the 1991 FA cup final, I had never been that interested in Football, but loved Italia 90, and that was because of one man: Paul Gascoigne, Gazza was massive, he was everywhere, on crisp adverts, in the papers he was immense (to coin an AVB phrase.) And he played for the team my dad liked. One day that team was on the telly, I didn't know why, I was only a kid, we were playing a team in red, and they were from Nottingham, now at the time my auntie was living in Nottingham, I was obsessed with Robin Hood, and logically you would have thought that would make me lean towards Forest on that fateful day. My Auntie was down visiting, and we were all watching this match together. Now I knew my dad wanted me to support the team in white, but my auntie was trying to get me to support the team in red. Then I saw him, Gazza came out with the Spurs team and I said. "I'm going to support Spurs"
It didn't matter to me that he went off after ten minutes, it didn't matter that Forest scored first, I had made my mind up. And to me it seems like it was a pretty good choice.
Gazza went to Lazio, legends came and left...Klinsmann, Sheringham, Ginola, but I still stayed Spurs!
COYS